This event is part of the Spring 2019 Sawyer Seminar Series: Interrogating the Plantationocene

Examining the past and present of plantations, their materialities, the economic, ecological, and political transformations they wrought, and their significance to the making of human bodies, capitalism, and land over the course of four centuries.

With generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar program, and support from the Center for Humanities, the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies, and the Nelson Institute’s Center for Culture, History, and Environment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.